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PSAT 1.8 Math Diagnostic. What is one value of x?


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Thank you We sneak And here's your smoked you sure

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brought to you by dead birds And you thought your

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flight was delayed All right if four x squared plus

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six x plus thirty five equals sixteen x squared plus

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seven x What is one value of x All right

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near the potential answers All right well we've got two

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ways to do this thing Isn't it nice having options

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One way would be to plug in each of the

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four answer choices one at a time until we find

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one that works But way just did the plug and

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chug method for last problem we solved and we want

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to mix things up a bit Do things the hard

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way this time Don't give us that look you know

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keep you sharp Okay so the first thing we want

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to do is combined like terms We got a couple

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of x squared here so let's subtract four x squared

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from both sides Then we have a couple of ex

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terms that will subtract six acts from both sides to

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get those over to the right as well And finally

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will subtract thirty five from both sides And now we've

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got zero equals twelve x squared plus x minus thirty

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five Much cleaner looking Almost looks pretty enough to kiss

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on the mouth there That headline All right so now

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we've got this polynomial but we still need to solve

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for x timeto factor We know that we can get

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to twelve x squared By multiplying twelve x pi x

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six x by two ex or for x by three

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x And because our last term is negative thirty five

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it's probably going to be some combination of a seven

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and a half five Well after a little finagle ng

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we realised that four x times five is twenty x

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and three x times seven is twenty one x which

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is a difference of one x and that's the middle

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of our pollen O'neill right on the right track to

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get everything would work out perfectly We'll need to put

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four x plus seven in one set of parentheses and

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three x minus five and the other let's Double check

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to make sure we did that right for x times

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Three axes twelve x squared All good there Three x

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times seven is twenty one x and for x times

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negative five is twenty Ex those cancel out toe one

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x So it's still looking promising and finally seven times

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negative five is negative Thirty five loot We got it

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Now we can set each of those equal to zero

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and go home from there So for x plus seven

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equals zero We can Subtract seven from each side to

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get for x equals negative seven then divide both sides

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by four to get x equals negative seven Force well

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but that's not one of our option that's not freak

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out question did ask us to find just one value

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of Acts So hopefully this other 1 works out well

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Three x minus five equals zero at five Both sides

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to get three x equals five then divide both sides

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by three To get x equals five thirds and bingo

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option c Now if you're really found that painful feel

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free to use the plug and chug method next time

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you get a similar problem But aren't you glad you

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know what the senior group looks like in case you're

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ever interested in a leisurely stroll All right point taken

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